Key figures

The economic role of Sem in 2008

1 094 Sem in activity

In 2008, the Federation counted 1094 Sem. With the establishment of 35 new and the disappearance of 57 old Sem, the overall staff of the Sem went down by 2%, namely also because of the pursued concentration of the actors in the social housing sector.

 

10,3 billion sales and a market capitalization of 2,8 billion

In spite of the reduced number of Sem, their total sales and market capitalization is increasing by 8%.

 

The Sem and their employees

In 2008, the Sem employed 51.000 employees.

The average number of employees of a Sem is 47, but it can vary from 1 to nearly 6 000.
The housing Sem employ 41 persons on average, amenagement Sem 17. The service providing Sem have a staff of 70.

In general, the Sem have structures of a fairly modest size: 50% of the amenagement Sem have 10 or less employees. The average staff of housing Sem is 5 and for service providing Sem 15 employees. These data have slightly increased, compared to the previous year.

 

The Shareholders

The Sem represent a market capitalization of 2,8 billion €uro, 65% of which, on average, is held by local authorities.

The overall structure of the shareholders of the Sem remains relatively stable, compared with 2007. There is a remarkable trend in the Sem newly established during the last two years, as their shareholders are more and more characterized by intermunicipal cooperation. Intermunicipal organizations actually hold 30%, on average, striving to achieve the level of the municipalities. One could say that the field of activities of the Sem sector is more and more shifting away from the territorial and administrative limits of the individual municipality to intermunicipal cooperation.

 

In Europe

16 000 local public enterprises (LPE)

1 100 000 direct jobs

140 billion €uro sales (1,5 % of the GDP of the European Union)

Local public enterprises are proprietary companies, which, to the example of the French Sem, are owned and controlled, by local authorities and fulfil missions of general interest.

They are actively involved in 8 large sectors (economic development, tourism, urban renewal and public infrastructures, production and distribution of water and energy, environment, public transports, telecommunications et other services), representing a total of about 30 different professions.

 

They exist in almost any country of the European Union. The arrival of 10 new member-states with 4 000 local public enterprises contributes to the transformation of the landscape of LPE and increases their importance in Europe .